BREAKING: A man has died after being tasered by police in the Canberra suburb of Waramanga.
According to a release, ACT Police responded to a critical incident earlier today where they found a man yelling and smashing glass.
Police believe the male had seriously injured himself and in an effort to stop him inflicting further self harm, they tasered him once.
ACT Police and paramedics attempted to revive the man however he was pronounced dead at the scene.
A police investigation team will now prepare a report for the Coroner.
The law in Australia currently completely restricts Taser ownership in all states and territories.
The weapon is only available for police use with some states even restricting it to special operations groups.
While Tasers are seen as a way of dealing with dangerous or harmful situations in a nonlethal way, that doesn’t mean they haven’t caused numerous deaths in Australia and around the world since their introduction into the police force over 20 years ago.
An extensive investigation done by Reuters found 1005 cases in the United States alone where a person died after police had used a Taser on them.
The death count in Australia is much lower, with at least six deaths being linked to Taser use up until 2012.
When a 2007 report from the United Nations Committee Against Torture said it “was worried the use of Taser weapons provoking extreme pain constituted a form of torture”, the Chairman of the Taser Board Tom Smith decided to respond.
After calling the UN “out of touch” with the needs of the modern police force, Smith listed all the other “injuries” police weapons inflict.
“Pepper spray goes on for hours and hours, hitting someone with a baton breaks limbs, shooting someone with a firearm causes permanent damage, even punching and kicking — the intent of those tools is to inflict pain, ... with the Taser, the intent is not to inflict pain; it’s to end the confrontation. When it’s over, it’s over,” he said.
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